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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Deer Lane (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Deer Lane. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Deer Lane is located in Hubbard County.

To see how the shape of Minnesota's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hubbard County: Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater & Wadena.

Below are the counties that are near Deer Lane. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Deer Lane:

  • Hubbard County     (The home county of Deer Lane)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deer Lane, with the one closest to Deer Lane listed first.
    • Dorset
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Dorset is located in Hubbard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorset
    • Nevis
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Park Rapids
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Lake George
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Akeley
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Benedict
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Benedict is located in Hubbard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benedict
    • Laporte
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Becker County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deer Lane, with the one closest to Deer Lane listed first.
    • Two Inlets
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Two Inlets is located in Becker County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Two Inlets
    • Osage
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Pine Point
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Pine Point is located in Becker County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Point
    • Ponsford
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Wolf Lake
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Wolf Lake is located in Becker County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 55 people
    • Elbow Lake
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Elbow Lake is located in Becker County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbow Lake
    • Evergreen
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Evergreen is located in Becker County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen
  • Beltrami County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deer Lane, with the one closest to Deer Lane listed first.
    • Rosby
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Rosby is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosby
    • Bemidji
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Cass County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deer Lane, with the one closest to Deer Lane listed first.
    • Ah-gwah-ching
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Ah-gwah-ching is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ah-gwah-ching
    • Walker
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Hackensack
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Backus
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Whipholt
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Whipholt is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whipholt
    • North Central Cass
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • North Central Cass is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Central Cass
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 29 people
    • Cass Lake
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Clearwater County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deer Lane, with the one closest to Deer Lane listed first.
    • Long Lost Lake
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Long Lost Lake is located in Clearwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lost Lake
      • Estimated population in 2015: 44 people
    • Minerva
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Minerva is located in Clearwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minerva
  • Wadena County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deer Lane, with the one closest to Deer Lane listed first.
    • Menahga
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Nimrod
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Sebeka
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Deer Lane, see our County-by-County Page for Deer Lane.

Cemeteries Near Deer Lane ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Deer Lane.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Deer Lane - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Deer Lane covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Deer Lane, with the one closest to Deer Lane listed first.

  • Lake Emma Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Greenwood Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Henrietta Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • St. Peters Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Bethel Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Crandall Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Straight River Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Akeley Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (74 more) ...
    • Hubbard Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Lake Alice Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Lakeside Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

While we didn't find Deer Lane in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Deer Lane.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Deer Lane, with the one closest to Deer Lane listed first.

  • Park Rapids
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Hubbard
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Hubbard is located in Hubbard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hubbard
  • Osage
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Menahga
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Hackensack
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Sebeka
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Nimrod
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Deer Lane. See our List of 1890's Communities around Deer Lane.

Newspapers Published in Deer Lane ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 72 newspapers that have been published in the area around Deer Lane.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Deer Lane, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Deer Lane.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Deer Lane:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Deer Lane, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Deer Lane) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.